Lusting for London: Australian Expatriate Writers at the Hub of Empire, 1870-1950

By Peter Morton

This book examines the flight of young Australian writers to London in the decades before and after Federation in 1901. Peter Morton studies how their careers were shaped by shifting their country of residence, the expatriate experience, and how the loss of these expatriates affected the evolving literary culture of Australia.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230338887
• ISBN13: 9780230338883
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.4"